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IFocus, a full enquiry into the pink batts stimulus handout, IMO would catch the Labor Party and the unions with their pants down.
A full inquiry into unions, IMO would bring the Labor party down in a big way and that is only making assumptions from what has been made public in the news media.
If Gillard believes the Labor party isn't rotten to the core, she should welcome an inquiry. LOL
lets not forget, these same officials are looking after a lot of their members superannuation.
There is one thing for sure, it will go pear shaped, when more members want a pension and less people are putting in.
Fortunately I think this will happen sooner than later.
 
Foreign Minister Bob Carr accused of betraying Prime Minister Julia Gillard over Palestine

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news...d-over-palestine/story-e6freuy9-1226534862213

In an exclusive column for The Daily Telegraph today, the Victorian Labor MP accused Mr Carr and his colleagues in the NSW Labor right of abandoning their "beliefs" and betraying Ms Gillard because of a misguided fear of a voter backlash among the growing Middle Eastern communities in western Sydney.
 
$16 billion spent on building the Education Revolution = primary students hit low in international reading tests

Well done Juliar!
 
drsmith said:
Building the education revolution, Labor style.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...al-reading-tests/story-fn59nlz9-1226534899367
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Yeh, that gave me a bit of a chuckle too when I heard on TV this morning about how far behind our educational standards have fallen. How ironic that after Rudd’s bold announcement about his education revolution, after all the billions they wasted on overpriced and largely unneeded school buildings, (presided over mainly by Gillard) they’ve achieved nothing in the way of improving our education standards. The only 'achievement' was to waste a power of money and put us further into debt, with nothing worthwhile to show for it.
 
dutchie said:
$16 billion spent on building the Education Revolution = primary students hit low in international reading tests

Well done Juliar!
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Plus another $6 Billion on the current boarder protection stuff up, and you really start to wonder if the people in charge have any idea? Short answer, no.
 
bunyip said:
Yeh, that gave me a bit of a chuckle too when I heard on TV this morning about how far behind our educational standards have fallen. How ironic that after Rudd’s bold announcement about his education revolution, after all the billions they wasted on overpriced and largely unneeded school buildings, (presided over mainly by Gillard) they’ve achieved nothing in the way of improving our education standards. The only 'achievement' was to waste a power of money and put us further into debt, with nothing worthwhile to show for it.
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This really pi$$es me off. It was one of the policies I thought had merit and instead we went backwards.
Labor can you get any policy to work or do you fail at everything?
 
Didn't someone have a list of the stuff ups somewhere?
  • Cash for clunkers - didn't even get off the ground
  • Digital set-top boxes - buying older generation votes
  • BER (Building Education Revolution) - fail, education levels slump
  • Border protection - complete fail
  • Carbon tax - no one voted this
  • MRRT - not 1 cent collected - foreign investment looking at other countries. Resource investment slump
  • Budget blow-out - minus some $200+ Billion
  • Grocery watch - fail
  • Fuel watch - fail
  • UN security council seat - already absenteed from a Israel vote, whats the point of getting a seat when your too chicken $hit to vote?
  • Cancellation of the baby bonus - bringing budget to surplus?
  • AWE scandal and too spineless to act on it

I'm sure that there are more to be added to the list.
 
Just to add to the BER stuff up, a parent called a radio station this morning to say that his son's primary school received a beautiful new school hall during the BER building. The school had their end of year break up last night. It had to be held at the local high school because the new school hall wasn't big enough to hold everyone.
Whacko, Labor, just fantastic.
 
Julia said:
Just to add to the BER stuff up, a parent called a radio station this morning to say that his son's primary school received a beautiful new school hall during the BER building. The school had their end of year break up last night. It had to be held at the local high school because the new school hall wasn't big enough to hold everyone.
Whacko, Labor, just fantastic.
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My sons school hall is the same they have to open the doors out the back and sit people outside the room
 
Julia said:
Just to add to the BER stuff up, a parent called a radio station this morning to say that his son's primary school received a beautiful new school hall during the BER building. The school had their end of year break up last night. It had to be held at the local high school because the new school hall wasn't big enough to hold everyone.
Whacko, Labor, just fantastic.
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And I’ll bet the beautiful new school hall cost two or three times what it should have.
My neighbors are school teachers. Their school got a new building to replace one that had recently been built and was completely adequate. There was considerable outrage in the town when a 300 grand quote from a local builder was ignored in favor of a 700 grand quote from an out of town builder.

Surely there had to be some corruption in there somewhere....a government minister (Gillard perhaps?) getting an ‘under the table’ payment to award the contract to the builder with the dearer quote?
Time and again schools were told to accept quotes that were two or three times dearer than other quotes for the same building. It happened so often that it’s difficult to believe it was anything other than deliberate.
 
Page 263 of this thread! Joe's going to have to apply for more bandwidth when the election rolls around. Mods probably on a fitness training regime.
 
Being young and naive excuses our past mistakes.

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Cartoon author credit: Bill Leak - http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2012/12/14/1226537/113978-121215-bill-leak-gallery.jpeg
 
Labor's latest surplus trick,

Under the direction issued by Senator Conroy late yesterday, reserve prices for the 700Mhz band were set at $1.36 per MHz per population implying a minimum $3bn revenue windfall from the auction.
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How it compares internationally, according to Optus,

"The reserve price announced is effectively double the basket of outcomes achieved in comparable advanced economies over the past two to three years," said Optus's head of corporate and regulatory affairs David Epstein.
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Optus not happy about wearing Stephen Conroy's latest red underpants,

Optus slammed a direction from the government to set a $3 billion floor price for the so-called digital dividend auction as "unworkable", prompting fears the telco could exit the auction process as it warned that the high price would restrict investment and drive up prices for essential telecommunications services.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/aus...ed-as-unworkable/story-fn4iyzsr-1226537177347
 
It will be interesting if Telstra are the only bidder, that will put a cat among the pigeons. Telstra with heaps of bandwidth for high speed internet, to compete with the N.B.N
It looks like another backflip to be performed by the goon show in the very near future.:D
 

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